First, a back to front exhortation to England, urging our national soccer team to play up and play the game. I saw it flying over London yesterday, and England duly overcame the combined might of Trinidad and Tobago. It was a long way away, taxing my x12 zoom lens to its limits. My eyesight being what it is, I only found out what it said when I got home and looked at it on my computer. But, I guessed right. Click to get it bigger.

And second, a snap of the TV taken today, just after the Argentinians had scored the second of the six goals they scored against the combined might of Serbia and Montenegro.

It’s the Billion Monkey shot of a lifetime! Diego Maradona goes bonkers. And an alert Billion Monkey blond lady sitting just in front of him gets the snap. That’s Maradona’s daughter there next to him. It’s all a bit vague in this picture, but trust me, that’s a bona fide Billion Monkey lady there, at the bottom of the picture. You can tell by her left hand. Click to get it even bigger and even vaguer.